This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello List and Sarah Peace who said (inter alia) " After all, aural tuning relies on counting beats, and beat rate would = vary with overall pitch. However, beats are irrelevant to electronic = tuning. I can't really speak from experience, as I only tune = electronically. Any thoughts from you aural tuners?" As an "aural tuner" I don't actually "count" the beats - it's just an = educated-through-years-of-experience "sensation" or "sixth sense" which = tells me "that's right! - or wrong!" in relation to the notes about it. Today, for example, I tuned an old piano "to its own pitch" - a thing I = often do if cash or virtue are in question. After extrapolating the = pitch from the covered Bass strings, I simply set the bearings using my = own unpatented "quadrant system". It always works - and no EDT is = required. I think it is really important that all tuners should have a = working knowledge of how to set the bearings aurally. No examinee should = pass the exam without proving they are capable of so doing. You never = know when you're going to run out of power out in the styx with no = replacement batteries for miles. I am not fazed by such. So all this = natter about "cents" and "Herz" (don't they rent cars?) is all very = interesting - so far as it goes - but at the end of the day if you can't = tune the piano by ear you should not consider yourself truly a = professional tuner. Technician, possibly. Tuner, no. BTW my quadrant system may be used in conjunction with an EDT or = entirely by itself. I use it with an EDT at modified pitch settings over = the whole piano if I am pitch raising.=20 Regards Michael G (UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7d/69/65/91/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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